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They could be creatures of passion or impulse who gave expression to the most violent or romantic sentiments, mingling laughter and tears with all the artlessness of children. Therefore we may expect the most divergent interests and the most complex combinations of aims and actions of which the popular reason is capable of conceiving.
=A que no le das tu cama=, I bet that you won't give him your bed. The "a" in this sentence is used elliptically, being dependent on the verb apostar, to bet or wager. Therefore the sentence in full would read "Apuesto a que no le das tu cama." =Si no quepe en ella=, why he can't get in it. En el vasto salón del Prado aún no había gente. Era temprano; las cinco y media nada más.
A realistic literature, therefore, that describes accurately the doings and the environment of Spanish villagers must be regional: it can not be broadly national. Pereda was, perhaps, the most provincial, the least cosmopolitan, of modern Spanish writers. An old-fashioned hidalgo, or country gentleman, he rarely left his ancestral home at Polanco, and if he did go away, he was always sorry for it.
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